The June PNWS-AWWA Section E-newsletter

June 2024 E-Newsletter

Issue #164

2024 Section Conference

Final Wrap-Up

1,000 of you joined your fellow members at this years annual section conference in Spokane. You reconnected with old friends, made new ones at our numerous networking events, attended some great technical sessions and were able to browse the latest industry gadgets at our vendor show.

Conference photos have been uploaded to our Flickr page.

Award recipients from our Friday luncheon where we honored this years best volunteers can be found on our website and in the summer edition of Water Matters which will hit your mailbox next month.

Presentations from this years conference will be uploaded soon to our website.

CEU/PDH letters will be emailed out to all attendees by the end of the month.

The abstract window for next years conference in Boise, Idaho is now open. Submit your abstract before the end of July to be considered.

Section Meet and Greet at ACE24

June 10 at Ballast Point

Join your fellow Section members as we kick off our ACE24 experience Monday, June 10 from 6-9pm at Ballast Point Brewery in Downtown Disney.

Enjoy great award winning beers and locally inspired food as you reconnect with friends from throughout our Section.

Meet Your New Section Board of Trustees

Your new Section Board for the 2024-2025 year took office immediately following our conference in Spokane.

From Left to Right - Top Row: Section Chair Nick Belmont, Section Past Chair Dan Sleeth, Treasurer Jamie Porter, Section Chair Elect Joel Cary, Association Director James Dean.

Bottom Row: Trustees - Jolene Gibson, Joanie Stultz, Chandra Hingston and Erika Murphy. Not pictured, Trustees Brian Wilson and Jeremiah Hunt.

Contact information for all Section Board members can be found on our website.

Scholarship Match Program for Dr. Stephen Booth

Donations Matched up to $5,000 by Confluence Engineering

We are saddened to announce that long time section member Dr. Stephen Booth passed away recently. Stephen was an active member of the Water Quality Committee as well as a strong supporter of Water For People.

Stephen was a many year employee of Confluence Engineering. Confluence would like to create a scholarship in Dr. Booths name and has agreed to match the first $5,000 of donations thereby raising the needed $10,000 for the named scholarship.

Donations checks to the Dr. Stephen Booth scholarship fund can be made out to PNWS-AWWA and mailed to the Section office at:

PNWS-AWWA

PO Box 872467

Vancouver, WA 98687

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Follow All the Competition Action from ACE24

Via Facebook

Our section is sending several teams to compete against the best our industry has to offer at ACE24 in Anaheim next week. We understand that not all of us can travel down to support our teams in person, which is why we will be updating the competition results on our section's Facebook page. Don't miss all the action of these competitors: